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Beth Long’s final Super 25 Chicago-area football rankings

By Beth Long

Lincoln-Way East holds the the 8A state trophy at Huskie Stadium, November 25, 2017 Worsom Robinson/For the Sun-Times.

With record and preseason ranking

1. Lincoln-Way East (14-0) 7

2. Phillips (14-0) 8

3. Prairie Ridge (14-0) 1

4. Loyola (12-2) 3

5. Maine South (11-2) 2

6. Batavia (13-1) 23

7. Marist (11-1) 10

8. Nazareth (12-2) 17

9. Lake Zurich (13-1) 15

10. Oswego (10-2) 18

11. Naperville Central (9-3) 21

12. Mount Carmel (9-4) 22

13. Glenbard West (9-2) 6

14. Minooka (9-3) NR

15. Homewood-Flossmoor (9-2) 9

16. Benet (9-4) NR

17. St. Charles East (8-3) 19

18. Barrington (10-1) 12

19. St. Rita (9-3) NR

20. Lincoln-Way West (9-3) NR

21. Lincoln-Way Central (10-2) NR

22. Hoffman Estates (10-3) NR

23. St Charles North (9-2) NR

24. Providence (8-5) NR

25. Morris (11-3) NR

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